And drill to achieve mastery without understanding is known to result in brittle learning. It requires both, and both can be delivered. @jamestanton's Exploding Dots is one example of many that can supply the understanding: http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-power-of-simple-representations.html …
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I'm surprised how little attention is paid to the fact that what we perceive as "fun" correlates strongly with what we are genuinely interested in. Practice is important to mastery. So, make math interesting. Then, practice and the path to mastery will be fun too.
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Indeed the more learned the more fun it became... the endless drilling was often unnecessary and to simple which made it boring and not done.
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She aims her article right at the heart of privilege/status/etc. I am pretty sure single parents working multiple jobs over half a day would digest this article differently with Maslow...
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Single mom w three jobs here—I have to hope my two will be ok without the extra practice and the kumon, etc. Tho, because I’m in math ed, I can ask them thinking-based math questions—that’s privilege too
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You must be doing an amazing job:) My bigger problem is the status of math/white-collar jobs. Why is art and music not valued as highly...
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I’m with you completely on that
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What's the evidence for the claims in this piece? Can
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One thing to which she may be referring is this study (https://bit.ly/2G85v8O ), also mentioned by Geary & Stoet in their
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Yes, that study supports the 'comparative advantage' point, but what about the 'practice makes perfect' point?
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As a female, math is easy. Why can't we be humans?
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Why aim this to girls?
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There is empirical support for the hypothesis that routine practice may help students learn math, but that teachers overly use more "fun" yet less effective instructional activities particularly for students at risk.
@Oliver_S_Curry#STEM@IESResearch http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0162373714536608 …pic.twitter.com/WDkOmQlSXd
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Can you supply some supporting evidence for the two claims in your first sentence? Ms. Oakley doesn't supply any in her article, but I assume you know of some since you endorse her approach.
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This is one way to get rid of libruls. I'm all for it.
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We played many Math fun games, puzzles and problem solving games. Sadly school kills the live of math.
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"Make your kids do their homework "? what a GENIUS idea! Thank God we have such brilliant people to give such advice. If only someone had thought of that 10,000 years ago. Oh wait . . . They did.. ;)
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